diff --git a/frontend/app/types/integrations/elasticsearchConfig.js b/frontend/app/types/integrations/elasticsearchConfig.js
index 2b3edbcd4..07791553c 100644
--- a/frontend/app/types/integrations/elasticsearchConfig.js
+++ b/frontend/app/types/integrations/elasticsearchConfig.js
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import Record from 'Types/Record';
 import { validateURL } from 'App/validate'
 
-export const API_KEY_ID_LENGTH = 20;
-export const API_KEY_LENGTH = 22;
+export const API_KEY_ID_LENGTH = 5;
+export const API_KEY_LENGTH = 5;
 
 export default Record({
   projectId: undefined,
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export default Record({
   }),
   methods: {
     validateKeys() {
-      return this.apiKeyId.length >= API_KEY_ID_LENGTH && this.apiKey.length >= API_KEY_LENGTH && validateURL(this.host);
+      return this.apiKeyId.length > API_KEY_ID_LENGTH && this.apiKey.length > API_KEY_LENGTH && validateURL(this.host);
     },
     validate() {
       return this.host !== '' && this.apiKeyId !== '' && this.apiKey !== '' && this.indexes !== '' && !!this.port && 
diff --git a/frontend/app/validate.js b/frontend/app/validate.js
index d36958195..de9b4bdc2 100644
--- a/frontend/app/validate.js
+++ b/frontend/app/validate.js
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ export function validateIP(value) {
 
 export function validateURL(value) {
   if (typeof value !== 'string') return false;
-  return /^(http|https):\/\/(?:www\.)?[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}(\/\S*)?$/i.test(value);
+  const urlRegex = /^(http|https):\/\/(?:www\.)?[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}(\/\S*)?$/i;
+  const ipRegex = /^(http|https):\/\/(?:localhost|(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})(:\d+)?(\/\S*)?$/i;
+  return urlRegex.test(value) || ipRegex.test(value);
 }
 
 function escapeRegexp(s) {
diff --git a/frontend/app/validate.test.js b/frontend/app/validate.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..437bf5fd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/app/validate.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import { validateURL } from './validate';
+
+describe('validateURL', () => {
+  test('validates standard URLs', () => {
+    expect(validateURL('http://www.example.com')).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(validateURL('https://example.com')).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(validateURL('https://sub.example.com/path')).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  test('validates localhost URLs', () => {
+    expect(validateURL('http://localhost')).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(validateURL('https://localhost:8080')).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(validateURL('http://localhost/path')).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  test('validates IP address URLs', () => {
+    expect(validateURL('http://127.0.0.1')).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(validateURL('https://192.168.1.1')).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(validateURL('http://192.168.1.1:3000/path')).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  test('rejects invalid URLs', () => {
+    expect(validateURL('justastring')).toBeFalsy();
+    expect(validateURL('http://')).toBeFalsy();
+    expect(validateURL('https://.com')).toBeFalsy();
+    expect(validateURL('256.256.256.256')).toBeFalsy(); // Invalid IP
+    expect(validateURL('http://example')).toBeFalsy(); // Missing TLD
+  });
+
+  test('rejects non-string inputs', () => {
+    expect(validateURL(12345)).toBeFalsy();
+    expect(validateURL({ url: 'http://example.com' })).toBeFalsy();
+    expect(validateURL(['http://example.com'])).toBeFalsy();
+    expect(validateURL(null)).toBeFalsy();
+    expect(validateURL(undefined)).toBeFalsy();
+  });
+});